whingey


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Related to whingey: whine, whingy, whining, winge, Wingy
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whingey

adj (Brit inf) to be whingeydauernd jammern or meckern (inf); (baby) → dauernd plärren; the kid’s starting to get whingeydas Kind fängt an zu plärren; don’t be so whingeymecker doch nicht so! (inf)
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After responding individually to each bad review, Ms Webb posted a status update on the page saying: "To all the friends of that spoiled d brat that didn't like being ID'd or my response to his whingey review, I must inform you that most people know you're faking it and I'm just desperately trying to ignore all the atrocious spelling and terrible grammar.
Inside there's this unbelievably kind, generous, social-minded person, but he's a cranky, whingey fecker.
Twenty-three-year-olds Brooke and Tim, who met as students, were expecting their second boy, and provided each other, and us, with a lot of laughs, though Tim was very brave to joke to his beloved that she was being "a whingey git" during her caesarean section!
It's probable that as he settled he would be more quiet, more withdrawn, more clingy, more whingey. Over time he would be more withdrawn and lethargic before he collapses."
I didn't want to write some dingy, whingey music about being middle-aged, I wanted to say hallelujah to the world.
I didn't want to write some dingy, whingey music about being middleaged, I wanted to say hallelujah to the world.
being rough, whiney at times, a whingey sound about it.' (23) Some nine months after the event, police officers took the daughter to observe proceedings in the Court of Petty Sessions--where their main suspect was representing himself in unrelated criminal proceedings--and asked her if she was able to recognise any of the voices.
With its downward intonation at the end of sentences and nasal sound, it is considered dull, droney and whingey and plain unsexy by a large percentage of the population.
On the other housemates, Laura was characteristically blunt, criticising Chanelle Hayes's relationship with Ziggy Lichman and saying that Carole Vincent was "obsessive and whingey".
That role was always available during pre-season, and although we decided to go with David McNamee, that was no reflection on Whingey.